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After a ‘bet’ with her 14-year-old daughter Lorra, Georgina Campbell wrote all 55,600 words of her first novel on her BlackBerry smartphone. As soon as she started writing on her BlackBerry she became ‘immersed’ in the task, and poured out 200 pages in four months.

The end result, The Kickdown Girls about a group of girls growing up in south London, has now been published by Memoir Books per an article on rapidberry.com. Described as a gritty thriller, it may be one of the first novels composed entirely on the Blackberry memopad app, which is ordinarily used for shopping and to-do lists or small memos.

Miss Campbell, a former chef at the US Embassy in London and the trendy Beach Blanket Babylon bar in Notting Hill used the Blackberry because it was something she had with her all the time and could use anywhere.

“I was writing on the train, on breaks at work, waiting for a bus, having a bath, when I was walking around – anywhere,” Campbell says. “It completely took over my life – all I thought about morning to night was writing the book.”

On sale through Amazon, The Kickdown Girls can be bought at booksellers including WH Smith, Waterstones and Barnes and Noble.